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    3/4 dead chick. Please help.

    You could try Vibactra Plus. It’s an herbal tincture product by Amber Naturalz. We’ve used it for our laying hens. It’s available on Amazon with free 2 day shipping or you can call or order directly from their website and request free two day shipping over the phone.
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    What do you give your hens for protein?

    Ooh that’s a great idea. I’ll check and see if the mill sells it, I bet they do. Thank you!
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    What do you give your hens for protein?

    This is perfect! Ill make sure to grab some fish for them and see if it helps. Thank you!
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    What do you give your hens for protein?

    What a great idea! This is great advice, thank you! I can definitely get them some sardines! I know they like yogurt too.
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    What do you give your hens for protein?

    Oh my gosh, what a great idea! We had been giving extra eggs away, which was nice too, but this!! I’ll definitely be trying this. Thank you!
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    What do you give your hens for protein?

    One of my hens is beginning to molt, but has also been having her wing feathers plucked out by the bully hen. We are getting a kennel to put the bully in rehab, but in the mean time, what do you feed your girls to boost their protein? We have freeze dried mealworms and black soldier fly...
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    Help me narrow down breeds?

    Your criteria was very similar to ours! We ended up getting: Barred Plymouth Rocks Sapphire gem Sapphire olive egger I have also looked at the breeds others have mentioned adding here to their additional flock mates!
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    Help me narrow down breeds?

    Just finding this thread now but I’ve heard great things about the Buff Rock! Some people seem to like them better than their buff orpingtons. What is your experience now?
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    Looking for quiet black chicken to add to my flock

    Is your lavender as sweet as your buff? Or similar? I’m not sure why I’ve had an aversion to buff orpingtons. They have come so highly recommended, as the golden retrievers of the chicken world. I don’t have much experience with them, but a lot of people seem to really love them! That...
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    Looking for quiet black chicken to add to my flock

    That sounds like exactly what I’m looking for - calm, steady, sweet tempered. that’s exactly what I’m looking for!
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    Are feathered feet breeds harder or more maintenance than clean legged breeds?

    We’re in zone 7, in Tennessee. Our winters mostly average 15-20 degrees F, but we did have a week or a little over that where it was -4 F last year, during the big storm. We have a covered run on a hillside and are able to do deep litter in their coop. We get some humid and rainy times. I’ve...
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    Sick Sapphire Gem

    You can find calcium citrate online, I don’t have a brand recommendation. Tractor supply sells oyster shells that you can mix in with their feed and offer separately.
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    Looking for quiet black chicken to add to my flock

    I’m interested in adding a black pullet chick to my flock with our next round of raising chicks. We live in a neighborhood, on about a half acre, and thankfully, our neighbors are for the most part cool with it, but I want to make sure we’re looking at quieter breeds. We are of course going to...
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    Small backyard flock - what’s gets along with BR?

    Thank you so much for the tip on integrating them! We want a nice peaceful integration. I tend to agree, I’ll try to stick with heritage breeds or at least not high production breeds, I don’t want to support stressing out their little systems. My neighbor said that her cinnamon queens are...
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    Small backyard flock - what’s gets along with BR?

    We have a small flock of 4 backyard laying hens. We are looking to add another 2 hens (live in city limits, so we can have 6 hens total, and hopefully on the quieter end, pullet chicks). We have 2 Barred Plymouth Rocks, a Sapphire Gem and a Sapphire Olive Egger. All are pretty great foragers...
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    • australorp backyard friendly barred rock bielefelder brahma mixed breed flock quiet sussex welsummer wyandottes
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